Hey CreateMyTee!

My friend showed this to me the other day, and I figured I would write in a question of my own.

So, my problem is much less colorful than last week's, but I still think you can help me.  I'm a college student home for summer.  I had a great junior year in Indiana, but that greatness has disappeared thanks to my overbearing and overprotective parents.  They want me to check in with them periodically when I go out for the night, they seem so angry with me when I leave home to visit my friends at other colleges, and I'm not even going to approach them about the trip to California I’m going on in a few weeks.

What do you suggest I do?  Move out?  Talk about it with them?  Look for new parents?

-Danny L

Dear Danny L,

It sounds like you need a new approach to talk to your parents about this issue. I suggest you pack your belongings, sneak out in the middle of the night, and take a month-long road trip around the U.S. At each place you stop, send your parents a postcard—make sure the postcard doesn’t give away your exact location though (just get those ones with like pictures of birds on them or something). On every postcard, write a clue as to where you are and why you’re mad at them—it’ll be like a huge game of Where in the World is Carmen San Diego, so it might help if you befriend a monkey.

Once they’ve spent hours worrying about you/calling you/flying to cities they think you’re in (but you’ll be too fast for them—make sure you’re always on the move), they’ll get sick and tired of being so overprotective and overbearing and probably apologize to you for their behavior. That, or they'll call the cops.  Be sure to pack some disguises.  Maybe a good pair of fence climbing shoes.

Best of luck,

CreateMyTee

Hold onto your hats everybody.  I don’t want you to lose your hats. Also, make sure your shoes are tied, velcroed, etc.  I don’t want you to lose a shoe.  Random Shirt with Dr. Ops is in the process of going through a handful of transitions (pause for gasps). A blog once solely piloted by Dr. Ops is getting a few co-pilots.  The Baker, the man responsible for bringing you the weekly High 5, and Emily Morris, CreateMyTee’s newest (and funniest) intern are in the process of creating a slew of weekly comedic content for your brains to enjoy.

Today, Emily and I (but mostly Emily) are debuting our first new segment.  Take it or Leave it is a weekly event where we take questions submitted BY YOU and answer them in our own special CreateMyTee way.  Enjoy!

If you want your questions answered, send them to ShirtLocker@CreateMyTee.com.  We're experts in pretty much everything.

Dear CreateMyTee,

My husband and I are recently retired. We’ve settled into a comfortable morning routine:
he reads the paper and goes for a run, and I watch television and get ready for aquaerobics.
The only problem is that our neighbor, Rick, keeps dropping by around 9 or 10am, while
we’re still groggy and unprepared for the day. Sometimes my husband’s all sweaty from his
run and I’m still in my robe. How do we tell him that its inappropriate for him to come over
this early unannounced? I don’t want to be rude because we see him and his wife at many
social events.

Sincerely,

Frustrated in Milford

Dear Frustrated,

It sounds like you need to show Rick who’s boss. He can’t keep barging in on you and your
husband while you’re getting ready for aquaerobics. I think that you and your husband
should stage a huge fight in front of Rick the next time he comes over. Make sure to shout,
swear, and probably slap your husband to really drive the point home. It would help if your
husband broke a large vase or lamp to show how strong he is (in case he and Rick ever
have a misunderstanding, Rick will back off right away). He could also rip off his sweaty t-
shirt and tear it in half with his bare hands (just make sure you order a few extras of his
favorite shirt beforehand. You two may want to do a few practice runs). Also, If you know of
any of Rick’s political views, try to offend them subtly in your insults to your husband. The
atmosphere will be tense and uncomfortable, and Rick probably won’t ever want to visit
again.

Best of Luck,

CreateMyTee

Foreshadowing

It occurred to me the other day that Insurance companies are doing a very good job with their commercial advertising of late.  I hate admitting that I thoroughly enjoy every Flo commercial, every “can I get a hot tub?” commercial, every “we are Farmers (bum bu duh bum bum dum dum)” commercial, and every Nationwide “is on your side” shadow puppet commercial, so I won’t officially admit it, but I think it is pretty clear. 

Advertising for major companies is a crucial element so I believe that the advertising teams feel a lot of pressure, but I also have to believe that being a part of say, the Bud Light advertising and marketing team, has to be one of the best jobs ever created.  Imagine taking all of the humorous little things from daily life and turning them into a commercial. Tough life…

How is this foreshadowing one might wonder?  You will just have to “tune in” in the near future to find out.

- Dr. Ops

Still Going Strong!

Ok, maybe I lied.  I think the fact that I had Michigan State in every one of my final fours paints the picture of how my successes, or failures for that matter, went the first weekend of the tournament.

Day 1: I had a good start.  I actually did pick Morehead State and Richmond in the 12-13 spot of the bracket and was feeling pretty good (“is this the year?”).  Everything went downhill from there…

Days 2, 3 and 4 can be summed up in one sentence; Well, I know who I’m picking next year: The teams with the best mascots!

I realize that all of my blogs are becoming more and more like Arrested Development episodes.  For those of you who have not been lucky enough to witness three of the best seasons of a TV show ever created, a lot of the jokes were long-running jokes that you might not understand unless you have been with the characters from the beginning.  For those of you who have seen it: "The money is IN the banana stand!”  I imagine half of you laughed just now.  The other half now knows why the show was pre-maturely canceled.

- Dr. Ops

"This Is The Year"

Before reading this, a tone must be set.  Imagine a rising drum beat.  With each question, a different highlight from this year's college basketball season.  Lastly, picture Morgan Freeman reading each sentence.

Will you be one?  One of the thousands of people who, even tonight are scrambling to choose the perfect bracket for March Madness?  One of the thousands of people who will over-analyze every single schedule, strength of schedule, margins of victories, road wins, home losses, recent surges and non-injured players?  One of the thousands of people who will still be defeated by his/her significant other who chose based on uniform color or mascots? 

One of the thousands of people who gamble away yet another large amount of money in hopes that "this is year?”  One of the thousands of people who will take a few extra trips to the “bathroom” at work to check scores?  One of the thousands of people who will literally scream at his/her television set when a bad foul is called?

One of the thousands of people who is proud of the one upset that “I called, but no one else did?”  One of the thousands of people who suddenly become huge fans of a certain school simply because they chose them to win in round 1?

One of the thousands of people who are extremely excited that the first day of play lies on St. Patrick’s Day this year?  One of the thousands of people who come together nationwide to enjoy arguably one of the best sporting competitions ever created?  One of the thousands of people who go into shock when that buzzer-beater actually goes in?  One of the thousands of people who, while his/her bracket may be completely busted, will still have thoroughly enjoyed every single second of the entire month?

I will.

- Dr. Ops

P.S. I feel like that sounded like a commercial.  Imagine the final clip being a crowd storming the court of the championship game with the phrase “I will,” behind a Nike Swoosh.

P.S.S. You are welcome for the free advertising Nike..

A Not-So Fat Tuesday

Is there a counter holiday that lasts just one day?  Skinny Wednesday? If so, does it give everyone the chance to even things out a bit?  If that is the case, what would the opposite of 5 Paczkis be? 5 collared greens, not to be confused with Collared Peccarys, which are the only native, wild pig-like animal found in the United States? 

I decided to make a list of a few things that will help overcome the side-affects associated with Fat Tuesday.  I also put about 2 serious minutes of thought into this, so please read carefully!

1.    Looking to hide your new neighbors, the Love Handles? Well you could burn their house down, but that doesn’t really make sense in this analogy.  Instead, try buying a Shirt Happens T-Shirt one size too big.  Then, we can hide the neighbors and feel even skinnier than yesterday!

2.    Looking to avoid eating Paczkis altogether (Part 1)?  That is easy!  When someone offers, don’t be rude; simply eat only one bite, then “accidentally” knock the rest of it on the floor!  Have a clean floor?  Aim well; hit the trash!

3.    Looking to avoid eating Paczkis altogether (Part 2)?  Try this:  Think of the worst smell that you have ever come in contact with.  Imagine this smell coming from a Paczki.  Repeat. Then, repeat. Repeat again.  Repeat once more!  If you really focused on this exercise, see what happens when someone offers you a Paczki!

Let me know how the successes/failures go!

- Dr. Ops

I feel like every time the Academy Awards show up, so do at least 1, if not 5, movies in the top 5 movies that I haven’t seen, or even heard of.  I know what you are thinking; Dr. Ops, you’re just a silly head.  Well that officially makes you a silly head follower! 

Jeff Bridges was up for the second year in a row as a nominee for Actor in a Leading Role which I guess I can understand, but was there really not even a notable mention for the actor who plays Slinky Dog in Toy Story?! Can you say fixed?  I hope so.  It is a fairly simple word to pronounce, but I’m not judging, just analyzing in a negative way. 

Did anyone else notice that Natalie Portman’s earrings would not stop moving?  Weird.  That’s all I have to say about that.  All night I was trying to figure out why Bridges looked so familiar (besides winning last year of course).  I finally figured it out and I will be extremely impressed and/or embarrassed if anyone knows what I am talking about it:  Faerie Tale Theater, and specifically, “Rapunzel” with Shelley Duval.  I grew up with two sisters…

- Dr. Ops

Still not really sure… Daniel Tosh created Web Redemptions; I created Random Shirt Revisions.

Last week’s blog was, for a lack of a better term, platitudinous, so here are a few pet peeves I’m sure you can relate to:

• When people clean before the cleaning person comes
• When people sing a song they clearly don’t know the words to, but repeat the words as they are said by a split second
• When people say “mell-k” instead of milk (no need for phonetics here, it is self-explanatory – it is clearly an “I” people!!)
• When people blow their nose with their finger in public
• When people chew loudly and with their mouths open (a close relative to slurping soup or drinks)
• When people print T-shirts using a cheesy design lab with limited clip-art instead of working one-on-one with real human artists at CreateMyTee

So is Detroit really the next “Hollywood?”  The engineers for the statue of Robocop seem to think so!  Yes, for the very small number of you who don’t keep up with your Motor City current events, the city plans to build a life-size replica of Robocop to honor the blockbuster film.  Over the next few years I predict that many of the city’s buildings will be demolished for movie scenes.  “Oh, you need to break a building in this scene? Go ahead, we were going to destroy it anyways.”

I wonder who holds the record for the longest “poke” war on Facebook…

- Dr. Ops

Why are blueprints blue?

Not really sure.  Anyways, pet peeves.  Let me create a scene.  I will use code for the title so I don’t give it away before you read it.

The Tory-Say Oppers-Tay

Bonfire.  22 college students. A few marshmallows.  Two guitars.
“Yea, I used to play basketball in high school, I was actually on varsity for two years.”
“That’s pretty cool, I did too. Started a few games as a freshman, but everyone always thought I should have started all season.”

Meanwhile, guitar player A begins to strum the first two chords to “Wonderwall,” and clearly doesn’t know it.  In comes guitar player B and they collaborate.  Thinking they have figured it out, they begin to play together, but clearly, still don’t know it.

“At my school, we weren’t allowed to start as freshmen, but I was voted the conference MVP for my junior year.”
“I see.  At my school we didn’t vote on MVPs because our coach always said that the leaders would stand out on their own.  I did too.  I had 52 points one game, and I almost dunked.  Got about two finger tips worth of rim.”
“I could dunk in middle school.”

Confused, Heather suddenly shouted, “prove it,” from across the fire.  Thus the two story toppers began to “dunk” the marshmallows over tree limbs.  Each higher than the next, and this continued for hours.  When they finally could not reach any more branches, they returned to the fire to reveal their new stories of “tree-dunking” to the other students but no one was there.

The End

-Dr. Ops

Fact: If you swallow a Watermelon Seed, a Watermelon will grow in your stomach.  Myth:…

Fact 1: Macauley Culkin was the Director’s choice for Titanic. Fact 2: Dave Chapelle was offered the role of Bubba Buford in Forrest Gump first and turned it down. Myth 1:  Rocko from Rocko’s Modern Life is fictional.  When he retired from television stardom, he simply moved to a zoo in Sydney, Australia. 

Opinion 1: Orca Whales are given a bad rep. Fact 3:  Blue Whales kill tons of plankton daily but are considered majestic.  Opinion 2:  That is unfair to the Orca Whales, who we actually enslave in some cases for entertainment.  Don’t believe me?  Check out Free Willy.

Myth 2: The Super Bowl commercials were amazing this year.  Opinion 3:  Yes, the Chrysler commercial about Detroit was definitely inspirational, but overall, there were maybe 3 total commercials that were actually funny.  Fact 4:  I laughed the hardest when the parents were turning the car engine on while their Darth Vader kid was turning the car to the dark side. 

Opinion 4:  It is only a matter of time before “Dislike” is an option on Facebook.  Myth 3:  Elephants never forget.  Myth 4:  It is cool to fist pump without wearing your custom tee shirt.  Fact 5:  It is cooler to fist pump with a custom tee shirt, but it is still not very cool to fist pump.  Myth 5: Daria grew up and is now Marilyn Manson.  Opinion 5:  You should follow us on Twitter

Random Shirt of the week

Gildan Youth Ultra Blend T-shirt

- Dr. Ops

Paranormal weather? 

My roommate and I decided to watch the second Paranormal Activity tonight in honor of the approaching storm.  Halfway through we was convinced that we were going to buy a Ouiji board afterward.  Three closed doors, hamburger helper and a possessed pool cleaner later, and we decided otherwise. 

Did anyone actually grow up and become what they were voted “most likely to become” in high school?  The fourth and most recent time that our other roommate, who I will just call Bart Kish, left our oven on for more than a few hours, I decided that he was probably deemed “Most Likely To Set My House On Fire One Day Or At Least My Garage Or Something Small Like The Shed Out Back,” in high school.  As soon as I can get a hand on one of his yearbooks, I will enlighten everyone. 

Oh and the hamburger helper was dinner.  It didn’t have anything to do with the movie, but it wouldn’t have been fair if I left that out.  I can’t do that to you. I don’t start a painting and stop part way through.  I don’t even paint to be honest, but you get what I mean.  Also, you may have noticed that I adjusted the second sentence a few times and realized later that it says “we was.”  It just seemed too odd to remove.

Since we are having one of the worst storms of the last couple decades tomorrow night, wouldn’t it be the perfect time to get a last minute Jerzees Heavyweight Cotton Sleeveless Tee?

- Dr. Ops

• Random Shirt: How are you doing with your New Year resolutions?
• Spotlight: Meet the Interns (1 of 3)
• Random Shirt: The Door-Holding Predicament

Don’t worry, it’s already been nearly four weeks, so it is completely understandable if you forgot about the new promises you made this year. In the meantime…

“Start-anews.” This is going to be one of my themes for the next couple weeks. While it stems from several frustrations, the root of what this means comes from the opposite of “left-overs.” Basically, I just spent about two hours cleaning my refrigerator, and let’s just say that I have a new goal to finish any left-overs before “starting a new” meal.

In the words of Peter Griffin, “You know what really grinds my gears?” Seeing a movie in a packed movie theatre. I hope I am not growing cynical with age, but each time I go to see a movie, I get more and more frustrated. There are about three types of scenarios that I can't stand:

• People who eat and drink very loudly. This is the lowest on my list because I know some people cannot help it, but the magnitude of the loudness only gets worse as I think about and focus on it.
• People who insist on talking throughout the entire movie. I think what is actually worse is when the people who just don’t seem to have a full grasp on whispering talk the whole time because they think they are being quiet. In reality, they are far from it.
• Finally, and I know that everyone else who likes horror movies just as much as I do will completely sympathize here, people who laugh during every single suspenseful moment. I get it; it is a defense mechanism to make the movie less real. To make the horror less horrific. To make sitting through all 12 Saws bearable. If you agreed with the last three sentences, you simply shouldn’t be going to these movies in the first place. You should be watching the television version of these months later during midday while you are doing other things and only giving half of your attention.

That is what really grinds my gears.

Random Shirt of the Week

You know what else grinds my gears? IM basketball teams without proper jersey attire (not this type of jersey attire). The A4 Reversible mesh jersey is perfect for home games, and away games (someone told me that it is reversible!).

- Dr. Ops

Commuting is a major part of everyone’s life.  Wouldn’t it make sense that we would have some general rules to follow to make it easier?

Mr. Hands brought up an interesting stressor the other day.  Imagine you are walking into a building and you are about 15 to 20 feet behind someone.  They will obviously get to the door first, and if they are courteous, they may hold the door for you.  Or is this backwards?  It can be annoying that you are instantly expected to speed up because they are holding the door, when you were perfectly comfortable with your speed already.

On the flip side, at what point is it rude to not hold the door for someone behind you?  10 feet? 8 feet? 2 feet? You can always act like you never saw them, but we all know that you can sense when someone is there.  Then what if you decide not to hold the door but they need to get on the same elevator?  If you stiffed them at the door, you probably don’t want to have a fourteen-floor elevator ride with them.  Awkward?

What happens when you hold the door to a very busy entrance for one person and end up holding it for 20, 30, 50 people due to traffic?  Is there a certain number where it is ok to cut someone off and stop holding the door?   Then, when that traffic is inside, when is it okay to click the “close door” button on the elevator and stop allowing people to squeeze in?

- Dr. Ops

Random SHIRT of the week

Shirt Happens T-Shirt

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Rap, comedians, flowers, magazines, gossip and websites all in one.

MIKE JONES! Who?  Mike Jones, CEO of MySpace of course.  Do you think the rapper chose his name due to the respect he has for the original Mike Jones?  Probably not, but who knows. I just saw an ad for MySpace and thought the coincidence was hilarious.  Comedian Mitch Hedberg was also hilarious, and he once pointed out that Sesame seeds were, in nature, somewhat ridiculous.  What does it actually become?  “What IS a Sesame?”  I thought about leaving you all hanging on that, but decided against it: A Sesame is a flowering plant, and it is primarily grown just for the seeds.  That seems backwards, but perhaps I am backwards. 

Meanwhile, the Marketing Guru and myself had an interesting revelation today while ironically enough, eating the pizza version of a Big Mac with Sesame seed crust (it really exists!). We were talking about celebrity gossip and how it seemed humorous to follow.  We then both proceeded to look at the television and watch Sports Center for a few minutes and realized that we were doing the exact same thing, only in a different niche.  It turns out that reading ESPN The Magazine is just as bad as reading Reader’s Digest: Soap Opera edition (sorry mom!).

There's nothing to gossip about regarding this week's Random Shirt item: the American Apparel Cardigan as modeled by this lovely lady. I've spotted a lot of these around town lately. A few cardigans as well.

- Dr. Ops

As the New Year starts, a lot of us focus on new goals and resolutions.  My initial ones have evolved…

A New Year.  A new list of resolutions.  Or is it?   I tried to be very specific this year and I doubt that any of you share the same list: eat better, get on a better sleep schedule, exercise more, kick bad habits, be nicer to my friends, family and coworkers, leave 2010 in 2010 and read more.  Something tells me that these were the exact same goals as last year.  Something else tells me that in a month, about half of us will have neglected our new lifestyles; in two months, about 95% of us will have, and in three months we will be celebrating March Madness, St. Patrick’s Day and National Quilting Day, which is of course the third Saturday of the month, having forgotten the “new year” altogether.  Prove me wrong. 

I think we need to create a list of 3 achievable goals each month instead of each year.  For instance, this month I plan to: learn how to “dougie,” watch The Bachelor, and eat Taco Bell only once.  All are somewhat doable, but very measurable (if no one actually sees me “dougie”).  Accomplishing these goals will ultimately lead to more resolution than our “New Year’s Resolutions.”  Trust me, I’m a doctor.

- Dr. Ops

Teach (Yourself) How to Dougie:

For background, composition, critical reception, live performances and record charts on the subject of doing the "dougie," the "dougie's" official Wikipedia page is recommended. To learn how to perform the dougie for your friends or the camera, learn step-by-step moves in this impressive instructional diagram that includes video references.

Noting about this blog had anything to do with creating custom apparel. So, I'm including a link to one of our greatest garments of all time... the American Apparel Infant Baby Bib. It looks good on all babies.

How can butter fingers have anything to do with a winter-based sport? Here is how…

Does anyone ever wonder why, at sporting events, people feel the need to stand up at certain points forcing everyone else behind them to stand as well?  Well I do, and now you will probably think about it. The answer is obvious, people get excited during climatic moments and want to be able to see more clearly, as well as use some of their recently heightened energy, but if everyone was in agreement to remain seated, then everyone would be able to see just as well, if not better.  After all, some people are taller than others believe it or not. 

Perhaps you are wondering where this is even coming from.  It was at this time last year that I went to a Red Wings game with my dad, and right before the Wings scored, everyone began to stand up.  We followed suit.  Then the next row, and so on.  Well, on this joyous occasion, a girl with “butter-fingers” in the row behind me stood up too quickly and spilled her beverage all over me.  Seeing as we scored, it was the least of my worries, but she proceeded, no persisted, on trying to get if off of me. 

Well that is normal one might say, right?  I would agree with that except for the fact that she had her fingers in my ear trying to get every last drop.  It was an interesting experience to say the least.  There’s some random shirt for you.  Happy New Year’s!  Or is it “Years?”  It doesn’t really matter…

Random Shirt of the Week

It wouldn’t be a “Random Shirt” without spotlighting this week’s actual random shirt.  This one is for the plan-aheaders and homerun hitters. If you have already started setting up your spring softball team, you should check out our ¾ Sleeve Baseball Tees.

- Dr. Ops

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Mark Zuckerberg got rich quick with an idea.  Here is ours… 

I just finished watching “The Social Network” for the second time in 18 hours.  I think the last time I watched the same movie twice in one day was when the blockbuster “Bring It On” came out.  Just kidding – it was definitely not a blockbuster, but I certainly watched it a lot (I grew up with two sisters).  

Being relatively new to the business world, I find this movie extremely inspiring.  So inspiring in fact, that I can’t stop thinking of different inventions or business ideas that would be fun and reach an unsaturated market at the same time.  In office conversation last week, we came up with one idea that seemed priceless!  If you have sensitive ears, please move to part B. 

Part A –  Fart Filters!  Genius, right?  Find a way to filter the carbon dioxide and other wastes in this wonderful gas and recycle them!  To add to the disappointment of my “Mother Night” movie plans (see Random Shirt: On the Topic), we decided to browse the Internet to make sure no one had invented it. Unfortunately, what we found can be found in part B…

Part B – Flat-D (Flatulence Deodorizer).  Excellent!  Wide arrays of deodorizing products already own the, well, unique market (okay, so part B wasn’t much better, sorry!).  My advice: Beware of gaseous ideas!

Random Shirt of the Week

A Tee with an interesting name, the “Tultex Unisex Tee with a Tearaway Tag” is this week’s Random Shirt. Comparable to an American Apparel Fine Jersey Tee, you get the comfort and feel, but can remove the annoying itch of the tag!

Contact us for top secret pricing.

- Dr. Ops

Detroit fans benefit from Minnesota’s misfortune.

Apparently this isn’t the first time the Metrodome collapsed?  With a roof made essentially of balloons and poles, engineers thought that they had it right during the early years of the “breakthrough” stadium.  Just 48 days later, a few inches of snow, a very large tear and a few bent poles led to the first collapse.  Back to the drawing board, these experts then decided to repair the poles and inflate the “balloons” again.  Everything seemed okay until this Sunday.  The weight of the snow conquered yet again! 

Four good things came of this: 

1. Free tickets for Detroit fans to watch the Vikings “host” the Giants at Ford Field
2. “Monday Night” Football found it’s way onto Ford Field for the first time
3. The stadium was packed for the first time since the Lions… Well the stadium was packed for the first time.
4. Shirt Angels: snow angels made from your favorite custom tee shirts.

Random Shirt of the Week

In other news, Dish 3 finally passed this weekend… In news other than other news, one might consider the very comfortable Gildan Pocketed Tee!  Probably not though…  Why not warm up in the Jerzees Quarter Zip Collar Sweatshirt?

Click HERE to get a free Instant Quote or browse other winter apparel.

- Dr. Ops

The many lives of dishes and gifts you can put your face on...

In my apartment, a recently dirtied dish reminds me of an ant.  How, one my ask?  Ants are born and then are given a certain job that dictates the rest of their life.  A worker? A gatherer? A Queen ant?  At least that is what happened in “A Bug’s Life,” which was roughly based on a true story.  

A dirty dish has copious potential and can grow into one of three dishes for the rest of it’s dirty life.  

1 – A dirty dish is rinsed shortly after use.  This is either the best or worst adult form of a dirty dish, because it maintains cleanliness in the kitchen, but also has the shortest lifespan.  

2 and 3 – A dirty dish is left dirty just long enough for the remains to harden.  At this point Dish 2 and Dish 3 have developed at the same rate, living very similar lives, and the difference then becomes when they are actually cleaned. Dish 2 is often looked at by it’s human owners several times with a look that screams “I should probably clean that, but tomorrow sounds better,” but is ultimately cleaned within a few days.  

Now Dish 3 has the most interesting life of all.  Dish 3 is usually the subject of a very intense mind war between roommates.  It is usually the forgotten dish, which no one owns up to but that everyone refuses to wash.  Out of spite, the human owners sometimes place this dish in the suspected guilty party’s bedroom, or the middle of the kitchen floor hinting that they, in fact, want it to be cleaned but are also, in fact, standing their ground.  As Dish 3 grows older and more neglected, other creatures such as Fruit Flies seem to forget that it is alive, and temporary use it as a home.  

To make a long story even longer, the village of flies is finally recognized by the roommates, and is finally given the 8 baths of soapy water it deserves before finally being laid to rest in the bottom drawer of the dishwasher.  Was being Dish 3 really that bad? You be the judge...

Random “Shirt” of the week

Looking for a great family gift for the holidays?  How about a shirt with your face on it? Last Christmas, the Honcho set the bar with a humorous custom t-shirt design of himself for the entire family.  Click here to see the sweet custom design on a CreateMyTee t-shirt.

Start designing your custom apparel today and have plenty of time to wrap them for your favorite relatives. 

- Dr. Ops

Koolsalade!

Anyone else in favor of a holiday that starts two days before Thanksgiving and doesn’t end until January 1st.? Let’s make that the 2nd actually.

Coleslaw. How is it that every restaurant, pub, snack bar, and grocery store can have such drastically different Coleslaw? While I am not even a huge fan of it, I have vowed that whenever I have the chance to try it at a restaurant, I will. Note – I will not substitute my beer-battered fries as my side dish with Coleslaw, but if I have the choice to include Coleslaw at no charge, I will.

For those of you who are also curious about the origins of the name, I found out that it comes from a Dutch term meaning “cabbage salad.” The term: “koolsalade.” Like a lot of words, our English ancestors put slang on it and shortened it up, making it sound horrible. Personally, I prefer koolsalade. But who am I? An anonymous blogger with about 12 consistent readers, that’s who!

Maybe I am taking crazy pills; A break that long would be way too long of a break (nearly a palindrome sentence)! I am going to open up suggestions again this week for next week’s random topic. Keep in mind that these can be extremely random! Think about it, I just wrote about Koolsalade!

Random “Shirt” of the Week

For those of you who are cold and who also have Olfactophobia, you are in luck! This week’s random shirt is actually a Crewneck Sweatshirt. Soft and warm! Okay so it may be able to keep you warm, but will most likely be unable to help with your fear of smells! 

- Dr. Ops

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